Creative Sketch-booking with Watercolour with Emilie
Description
Watercolour is an easy to pick up painting skill and is the perfect companion to start a sketchbook!
In this class, Emilie will share with you her tips to start a regular creative practice through sketchbooking. You don’t need any experience to start filing in a sketchbook with easy watercolour illustrations!
In this class, you’ll learn some basics of drawing and painting with ink and watercolor, both from observation and from imagination. Even if you haven’t held a paintbrush since primary school, you can join in and reconnect with the pleasure of drawing and painting.
All materials provided. Just come and have a wonderful time!
What will we cover?
How to start and commit to a regular creative practice through sketchbooking
Basics of watercolour for sketching
Gain confidence and build up your own style!
Some fun prompts to use anytime in your sketchbook!
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible Venue
All Gender Bathrooms
Early Bird Cheap Tix
Free Tix for First Nation Attendees
Who will be teaching?
Emilie (she/her) is an artist and educator based between Melbourne and Marseille (Fr), working across media with a focus on community-based practice and education. She graduated from her PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020 and has been an art resident at Testing Grounds (2020), Making Space (2021) and the Comic Art Workshop (2021).
Emilie has exhibited her works at FortyFive Downstairs gallery, the Abbotsford convent, No Vacancy Gallery, Arcade and George Patton Gallery.
In 2021, Emilie opened Couleur in Collingwood, a printmaking studio focusing on DIY, hand-prints, and experimental printmaking. Since 2023, Couleur Studio has relocated in South of France. Emilie is also a comic book artist and her illustration has been published by the Lifted Brow and she self-published her first graphic novel in 2018 with Tree Paper Comics in Melbourne. In 2023 she is running Glow Comics Trails festival with Laneway Learning, celebrating Melbourne's booming comics scene.
Important info:
Image Teacher's Own Art
Questions about the class or other ways we can assist with accessibility? Just email us at melbourne@lanewaylearning.com.
Idle Time Studios
Idle Time Studios is a shared studio space for creatives in Brunswick East and a workshop space for art classes !
We are not wheelchair accessible as of now, and there is a flight of stairs to get to the workshop room.
Idle Time is located :4-6 Lincoln St, Brunswick East VIC 3057
It is a short walk from tram stop Mitchell St/Holmes Street (stop 128), on the 1 or 6 tram line. There is plenty of street parking available on the street of the studio (Lincoln St), as well as along Allard park on Donald St.
When you get to Idle Time Studio, go through the roller door and all the way down the courtyard. Turn right and up the stairs : the workshop room is at the top of the stairs on your left. Follow signs and call Studio resident and Laneway Learning teacher Emilie Walsh if you are lost : 0402684139
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
Buy Tickets
Buy Tickets
More events from this host
